Every complex disease has both genetic and environmental risk factors. Most researchers study these factors separately because of technical challenges and a lack of large, uniform datasets. Although ...

Children exposed to gestational diabetes in utero with a specific variation of a common gene are at a higher risk of becoming ...

Some of the environmental factors are modifiable, the researchers said. Nature versus nurture: Scientists are gathering more evidence on which has more of an impact on human well-being amid the ...

Large-scale registry data from Norway reveal that genetics and shared family environments significantly influence key ...

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, ...

"We know it's environmental exposure," Kennedy said on Wednesday. "It has to be. Genes do not cause epidemics. They can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin." U.S ...

The rising global demand for high-quality aquatic protein has fueled the growth of the aquaculture industry. Despite this, ...

In addition, Child 1 has a new genetic variant (de novo) with a small effect (D). Together with the environmental factors the child has been exposed to, this results in Child 1 reaching the dashed ...

Using third-generation metagenomics, researchers from the Department of Plant Production and Microbiology at the Miguel ...

Although some have devised techniques to overcome these challenges, they haven’t yet been applied to a comprehensive set of diseases and environmental exposures. To illustrate the effect gene ...